Improvement in game-tables



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGEI JAMES P. HYDE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAME-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. October To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES P. HYDE, of New York, in the State of New York, have in vented a new and Improved Game, which I call a Oarromette, of which the following is a specification V The nature ofmy invention consists in the construction of a table similar to a billiard-table, having, near its center, a revolving disk, provided with a number of recesses and elastic projections, into which said recesses the balls used in the game are propelled.

In the accompanying drawing a top View of my improved table is represented embodying my invention.

A is a table, provided with raised cushions B aroundits edges, similar in sizeand construction to a billiard-table. Near the middle a circular disk, D, is inserted, flush with the top surface of the table. This disk D, with its top, is arranged to turn freely around its center; or a clockwork may be arranged at the under side of the table, and connected with said disk, to cause a regular revolving motion to be communicated to said disk. In the .face of this disk D any desired number of recesses, 5, 6, and 8, are made, of a size corresponding to the size of the balls, one recess, 5, being in the center. Around the outer parts of the outer row of holes, 8, elastic projections or cushions G are placed, to act similar to the cushions B on the edges of the table; or elastic projections may be made between the holes or recesses. There are three or more balls used in the game, one, which is the players ball, being quite plain, and the others are marked by strips or spots, a number of which are placed on their respective spots marked on the table,

and numbered accordingly. The players ball 150,692, dated May 12 1874; application filed 27, 1873.

is, at the begining of the game, placed 011 the spot marked 0.

In the beginning of the game the balls are all placed on their respective spots, and the player strikes his ball by means of a billiardcue, with the object of either making a carrom, or to push one of the marked balls into any one of the recesses in the disk D, and continues to play as long as he shall succeed in the one or the other result, or until his own ball rolls into any one of the recesses in the disk D. The next player then takes his turn, playing upon the balls as he may find them. either of the balls comes into any one of the recesses in the disk D, it is then put back again on its spot on the table corresponding in number to its own mark.

The revolving of the diskl),produced either by mechanical means-such as by clock-work, &c.or through the concussion of one of the balls against either of the elastic cushions 0, increases the difficulty of making a ball enter anyof the recesses in said disk. This disk D may be removed, and a disk not made to turn, and with a plain smooth surface, put in its place, when the table can be used for playing the usual game of billiards.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

I11 combination with a table, A, adisk, D, pivoted on its center, and provided with recesses 5 6 8, and elastic projections or cushions O, together with a suitable number of L balls, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES P. HYDE.

Witnesses: V

HENRY'E. RonDnR, JOHN S'rooK.

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